Of­fi­cers from the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice will soon ben­e­fit from ad­di­tion­al train­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties be­ing of­fered by the Fed­er­al Crime Po­lice Of­fice/Bun­deskrim­i­nalamt (BKA), based in Ger­many.

Talks about the train­ing were held among Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) Mc Don­ald Ja­cob, Em­bassy of the Fed­er­al Re­pub­lic of Ger­many Deputy Head of Mis­sion, Christoph An­to, and BKA Li­ai­son Of­fi­cer Daniel Janssen at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain, on Tues­day.

A TTPS re­lease not­ed that An­ton said the op­por­tu­ni­ties be­ing pre­sent­ed to lo­cal po­lice of­fi­cers will strength­en its op­er­a­tional ca­pa­bil­i­ties to tack­le press­ing mat­ters such as the pro­lif­er­a­tion of small arms in the coun­try.

Janssen said the ex­change of in­for­ma­tion be­tween in­ter­na­tion­al polic­ing or­gan­i­sa­tions was cru­cial for com­bat­ting some of the ma­jor crime is­sues in the world, in­clud­ing ter­ror­ism.

He said of­fi­cers from T&T are be­ing in­vit­ed to par­tic­i­pate in a train­ing course be­ing held in Bar­ba­dos soon and hoped they used the op­por­tu­ni­ty to net­work and strength­en their re­gion­al re­la­tion­ships.

Ja­cob said he was ap­pre­cia­tive of the of­fers from the Ger­man Em­bassy and looked for­ward to lo­cal of­fi­cers be­ing ex­posed to how Ger­man po­lice au­thor­i­ties con­duct their op­er­a­tions, so they could learn and ben­e­fit from such ex­changes.

He al­so ex­pressed in­ter­est in deep­er in­tel­li­gence-shar­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties to deal with firearms-re­lat­ed crimes in T&T.

Both par­ties agreed to con­tin­ue talks on the train­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties to make them a re­al­i­ty.

Al­so in at­ten­dance at the meet­ing were Se­nior Supt Ali­cia Hen­ry of the Spe­cial Branch, of­fi­cers of In­ter­pol and the Crim­i­nal Records Of­fice and As­sis­tant to the BKA Li­ai­son Of­fi­cer An­drea G Dominguez.